Ahmed Negida

I'm a physician-scientist at Virginia Commonwealth University, where my research focuses on precision medicine for neurodegenerative diseases. I integrate multimodal brain imaging (structural, functional, and diffusion MRI; EEG), fluid biomarkers, and data-driven models to stratify patients with Parkinson's disease, Lewy body dementia, and Alzheimer's into biologically meaningful subtypes.

Outside the lab, I founded Negida Academy in 2014 in Egypt — now the largest clinical research training platform in the Middle East and North Africa. I also run DataCliNiX, a consultancy serving pharmaceutical sponsors and academic investigators, lead Negida Publishing (publisher of the journal Translational Insights in Clinical Medicine), and co-founded the Global Neurosciences (GNS) research collaborative hosted by OHSU Neurological Surgery.

Trained in Egypt (MBBCh), the UK (PhD by Publication, Portsmouth), Turkey (Bahcesehir), and the US (Harvard, VCU, IMPACT-AD). I write, teach, and mentor early-career researchers, especially those from under-resourced settings.